Tigers Dance is a short film festival dedicated to short dance for the camera films that are appropriate for all audiences. It will be adjudicated as part of a middle school class about Dance for the Camera, and we hope to include a wide variety of short dance films in our program.
✨ Welcome to LA Under the Stars, the premier international film festival nestled in the vibrant heart of Los Angeles. Proud members of the TOP 100 BEST-REVIEWED FESTIVALS, we invite you to an unforgettable night filled with red carpet glamour, engaging filmmaker Q&A sessions, and an exciting Award Ceremony on the upper patio under the stars.
Join us at the historic El Cid Theater on West Sunset Boulevard, an iconic venue that blends Hollywood’s rich legacy with the contemporary energy of Silver Lake. LAUTS has been a platform for indie storytellers for six years, with past films featuring stars like Woody Harrelson, Juno Temple, and Danny Trejo. Our most recent festival was graced by the presence of Taylor Misiak and Nicholas D'Agosto, adding to the event’s star-studded atmosphere!
As an IMDB-accredited festival, LAUTS offers a competitive platform judged by a diverse panel of international experts. With over 1,200 submissions this year alone, the competition is fierce, and the selection process is rigorous—ensuring that the work showcased represents the best of the best.
Filmmakers, screenwriters, and creators, this is your chance to shine! Submit your work to LA Under the Stars 2024 and join a celebration that goes beyond borders, connecting your stories with a diverse and passionate LA audience. Experience the thrill of seeing your work come to life on the big screen, network with industry professionals, and enjoy the perks and prizes that make LAUTS a standout event.
Join us under the stars for a night of cinematic excellence and community like no other!
The ETHEREAL CODE International AI Film and Art Festival stands as a global celebration of the transformative synergy between artificial intelligence, filmmaking, and art. This pioneering event is dedicated to exploring the endless possibilities that AI brings to the realms of creative expression, pushing the boundaries of what is achievable in storytelling, cinematography, and artmaking.
The festival serves as a vibrant platform for innovation, imagination, and collaboration, bringing together filmmakers, technologists, artists, researchers, and audiences from around the world. By showcasing groundbreaking AI-driven films and artworks, it seeks to illuminate the ways in which artificial intelligence can revolutionize traditional approaches, creating entirely new paradigms in creativity.
At its core, the festival is more than an exhibition—it is a movement that fosters dialogue about the evolving relationship between art and technology. Through screenings, exhibitions, panels, workshops, and interactive experiences, participants are invited to engage with cutting-edge technologies and explore their role in shaping the future of cinema and art.
Our mission is to inspire a global community of visionaries to embrace AI not merely as a tool, but as a partner in the creative process. By empowering artists and creators to experiment, innovate, and redefine their craft, we aim to cultivate a space where the impossible becomes possible and where the future of visual storytelling is written today.
Through this convergence of art, science, and technology, The ETHEREAL CODE International AI Film and Art Festival aspires to build a legacy of creativity that transcends boundaries, sparking a new era of cinematic and artistic excellence.
The festival aims to promote independent filmmakers and innovative work, to take risks and move the frontiers from the boring and most of the times empty conventional to the artistic initiating strong emotions and out of the box exceptional. It equally aims to give the opportunity to independent filmmakers to showcase their work free of commercial constraints.
The cinema festival Fantasmagoria- Festival de Cine Fantástico y de Terror de Medellín - reaches its 7th edition. Our competition opens to the world and the city of Medellín to explore genre cinema and reflect on these thematic. The festival has several sections of short films and feature films to embrace the fantastic and horror genre spectrum. Also, to consider relevant national and international people who have done significant work to the genre through their filmography.
Short films and feature films will be selected from any nationality, produced in 2024 or 2025 which have yet to be seen in Medellín, Colombia. The films have to be related to the fantastic genre (fantasy, horror and sci-fi) and thriller, western, action, adventure and noir. They will be exhibited during the festival in Fantasmagoria in October 2025 in Medellín city, Colombia. The film features will compete for the El Cura Sin Cabeza statuette award.
Our aim is to create an inclusive and diverse context within the festival landscape. To promote and celebrate films in which the main characters or plots represent the LGTBIQA+ community, women and/or dissidents, which reflect the problems and discrimination that these people face on a daily basis, contributing to greater visibility and understanding and dispelling myths, stereotypes and breaking down barriers, where all voices are heard and all talents are valued.
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BAKUNAWA FEST [Fantastic Film, Art + Music] is the first fantastic & genre-based film, art & music festival based in The Philippines and ran by volunteer filmmakers and artists. Bakunawa is a dragon-like creature in Philippine mythology that devoured moons. Because we are a genre-bending film fest, we want to flip the Bakunawa's role and we want it to instead symbolize the creative monsters inside us.
Because we've had a rough and tough year, our 11th edition will screen films during the 2024-2025 seasons and will have several screenings starting in December of 2024, culminating to May of 2025. Bakunawa Fest runs annually in one season - spread in fourth months becoming a hybrid festival resulting from the pandemic lockdowns.
Bakunawa was initially created with this principle: "new visions, new voices". We still stand by this principle as we continue to program young promising filmmakers, artists & musicians who either have no access to expensive workshops and may not have the name recognition to be programmed in festivals. Since our third edition, we have included a section that screens curated local and international selected films mainly for educational purposes. Most of our Bakunawa Fest's film camps are done as outreach programs/workshops and are mostly free. Here our participants are scholars paid for by the festival and its partners usually hosted by different cities/municipalities in the Philippines.
[ Please note that, since we are an artist and volunteer-ran filmfest, we can't fund filmmakers to come physically and we don't pay screening fees. ]
We are a fantastic film fest. Our festival is interested in: Horror or Thriller Films / Sci-Fi, Fantasy or Adventure / Fantastic-themed Experimental Films, New Media, Expanded Cinema / Genre-Bending Films / Fantastic-themed Music Videos / Fantastic-themed Documentaries / Contemporary Art / Photography.
X CortoGijón Festival
The Gijón Short Film Festival arises
in 2015 as a parallel section within the
Aula 18 National Short Film Contest
in the delivery After the disappearance of
emblematic festival three of the programmers
decide to maintain their essence by transferring
the festival to Gijón. It is in the second edition
that of 2016, where the festival moves to the
municipal centers of the city to develop a festival with an eye on short films and music. Since then
to the competitive sections (Official Section,
Asturias Section) And to the sample sections
(Panorama Asturias and Mirada FICX) have been
there have been concerts that have given luster to the
cultural spaces of the city and that have
served to put the climax to each projection.
Names like Marilia, Pablo Und
Destruktion, Marem Ladson, Tiger and Diamond,
David Feito… confirm the high level
musical that lives the festival and its local and regional look.
In 2020 Laboral City of Culture joins
with a new screen inside CortoGijón
thus amplifying collaborations between
all cultural entities in the region started in 2017 with the Mirada Ficx section in
collaboration with the Gijón Film Festival.
Liberamente Short Selection is a festival organized and promoted by Liberamente Cavaion APS with the
support of Quock Productions and I Guardiani del Moscal. The initiative is sponsored by the Municipality of Cavaion V.se.
The goal is to allow the dissemination of independent short films in our territory, giving visibility to emerging artists and awarding the most deserving individuals.
The International Video Poetry Festival in Athens attempts to create an open public space for the creative expression of all tendencies and streams of contemporary visual poetry. The IVPF has been around since 2011. It is one of the largest international platform for video poetry. Every year, it offers poets, film directors, video artists and festival makers from all over the world a platform for creative exchange, brainstorming and meeting with a broad audience. With poetry readings, live performances, concerts, retrospectives, exhibitions, performances, workshops and lectures present in various sections the diversity of the genre of video poetry and spoken word music.
The International Video Poetry Festival happens in two different zones. The first day is the Show Room Video Poetry, a unique zone that will include video poems, visual poems, short film poems and cinematic poetry and performances by artists from all over the world (America, Asia, Europe, Africa). The second day is the Live Performance Zone with multimedia poetry readings, concerts with experimental music, workshops and spoken word lives.
Poets, filmmakers, video and digital artists, media and performance artists are called to submit creative works to The 11th Annual International Video Poetry Festival in Athens, Greece. The festival celebrates and will screen a large scope of video projects developed through the medium of poetry. The International Video Poetry Festival will also host a series of panels, guest speakers, workshops, and public dialogues regarding film and video poetry. In addition to the screenings, programmers also curate a video art exhibition.
There are no restrictions regarding when the film was produced or if the film has premiered regionally or internationally. There are no restrictions on subject matter, theme, topic, or the language of origin. The International Video Poetry Festival will accept submissions of poetry films, filmpoems, digital-poetry, poetry video, Cin(E)-Poetry, spoken word films, videopoema, visual poetry, choreopoems, poetrinca, media poetry, and all films and videos that are driven visually by text or voice.
Live performances, video mapping, installation proposals, and grand-scale video art presentations that contain strong aspects of poetry are encouraged. The IVPF also calls for experimental film and video work that explores poetry or literature whether it be oral, written, visual, or symbolic. This includes non-narrative work and the avant-garde.
The IVPF strongly considers artwork that examines and challenges traditional visual communication methods while continuing to function as a tool for exploring poetry. The International Video Poetry Festival will consider documentaries that focus on poets, poems, poetry, poetic technique, literary movements, and historical events within these realms. The documentaries must have English or Greek subtitles.
The IVPF also calls for video work that explores poetry and literature whether it be oral, written, visual, or symbolic. This includes the film essay or cinematic essay, non-narrative work, and the avant-guard. We will also strongly consider work that challenges traditional and current visual communication methods while continuing to function as a mode for exploring narrative and personal expression.
Organizer and promoter of the International Video Poetry Festival are the Institute for Experimental Arts in co-operation with Void Network.
We would like to thank Dave Bonta from the influential video art site Moving Poems, a global site with the best video poems on the web that inspired us to create the International Video Poetry Festival in Athens and we cooperate since 2011 to spread out the announcement of the Festival each year so as to gather participations from all over the world.
IndiFest is festival organized by alterNativa in collaboration with CLACPI (Coordinadora Latinoamericana de Cine y Comunicación de los Pueblos Indígenas), with the aim of giving its own voice to the indigenous peoples and to demand the fulfillment of their Rights.
The Festival’s main objective is to promote the Identity and the Rights of the indigenous peoples through audiovisual tools. The festival includes screenings at physical venues as well as an online week event.
IndiFest is complemented with other activities such as political incidence and conversations with indigenous leaders.
A commitment that enhances the decentralization of cultural habits as well as the communication of indigenous peoples concerning their Rights and intercultural relations.
Since June 2024, we have been organising independent and international cinema screenings in Lisbon, its focus being short films.
Our festival's mission is to make culture accessible to everyone!
Curtas na Cesta is Shorts in the Basket in english because we dedicate our time into harvesting the best and freshest cinema out there.
Welcome to Portland Under the Stars, where creativity and storytelling come alive in the Pacific Northwest! We’re excited to present an inclusive and inspiring platform for filmmakers of all backgrounds. Below are the details for each film category, including descriptions, rules, and awards.
The Mexico City International Independent Film Festival STUFF MX celebrates its 10th edition in June 2025 and opens its official call to filmmakers from all over the world to register all their film materials, music videos; in all formats, genres and categories of any length, in animation, documentary, fiction and live-action, which will be valid from December 1, 2024 until March 31, 2025 at 23:59 CST (CST), Washington, D. C. time. CST (CST), Mexico City time.
A horror film contest. Prizes include promotion on the Hollywood Investigator website, award plaques, screening at fan conventions (previous screenings at World Horror Con, Loscon, Tuscon.)
Tabloid Witch founder Thomas M. Sipos is the author of Horror Film Festivals and Awards (McFarland 2012) and Horror Film Aesthetics (McFarland 2010), available on Amazon.com.
We are an independent festival dedicated to bring together established musicians and filmmakers in a forum to celebrate the short films. Dublin International Short Film and Music Festival celebrates the artistic, educational and historical importance of short films and music. It gives independent film artists a platform for sharing their work and creating a dialogue with the community. It promotes the discussion and study of filmmaking.
DISFMF is the largest independent short film festival in Ireland, in 2025 we are celebrating the 14th anniversary.
In 2024 we selected over 90 short films from all over the world, the festival has brought established, emerging and award-winning filmmakers to the public attention.
Back in the cinema, the festival took place at the Cineworld, the biggest cinema in Ireland and The Sugar Club for the awards ceremony night.
DISFMF is conducted from the independent film maker point of view.
Director and producer from each film selected will benefit free entry to all the venues and screenings.
All kinds of short films are accepted. Here are some examples: Action, Adaptation, Adventure, Advertising, Animation, Art-house, Black Comedy, Children/Family, Comedy, Documentary, Drama, Experimental, Fantasy, Historical, Melodrama, Crime & Gangster, Biopics, Film-Noir, Road Films, Super-Heroes, Super-Natural, Mockumentary, Independent, Music Video, Musical, Reality, Religious, Romance, Science Fiction, Silent, Sport, Student, Thriller/Suspanse, TV, and more.
The Museo do Pobo Galego (Museum of Galician People) organises the Mostra Internacional de Cinema Etnográfico - Ethnographic Film Festival. 20th Mostra de Cinema Etnográfico Museo do Pobo Galego will run 12-16 March, 2025 in Santiago
de Compostela.
Call for entries from December 4,2024 to December 30,2024.
We understand ethnographic cinema in a broad sense; it refers to those productions
whose main aim is to show different aspects related to sociocultural realities as well as
a community’s way of life. It comprises films with the main focus on people, social groups and relevant historical processes that are related to anthropology and ethnography.
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